Erika J Axeen, MD
Pediatric Neurology
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Bio & Overview
Erika Axeen, MD, is a neurologist who specializes in evaluating and managing seizures and epilepsy in children. She has a particular interest in the clinical diagnosis and management of genetic epilepsies, including brain malformations. In the inpatient setting, Axeen sees children as part of the pediatric neurology team, and she cares for both children and adults as part of the inpatient epilepsy team. In addition, she is associate director of the multidisciplinary tuberous sclerosis clinic.
Born and raised in Ames, Iowa, where her father was a college professor, Axeen studied biological sciences with a minor in art history during her undergraduate training at University of Iowa. She completed medical school at the University of Iowa before moving to Charlottesville for residency training in pediatric neurology. She did a fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in epilepsy and epilepsy genetics and, once complete, returned to UVA Health Children's in 2017.
In her free time, Axeen enjoys hiking in the mountains with her family.
Additional conditions Dr. Axeen sees patients are for:
- Medically refractory epilepsy
- Consideration of dietary therapy for epilepsy
- Second opinions of epilepsy
Academic Information
- Department
- Neurology
- Academic Role
- Associate Professor
- Division
- Neurology
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Infants (0-2)
Children (2-12)
Adolescents (12-21)
Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
- Residency
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Fellowships
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Certification
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Epilepsy), American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology)
- Additional Specialties
- Epilepsy Neurology
Highlights
Meet Pediatric Neurologist Erika Axeen, MD
My name is Dr. Erika Axeen. I'm a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist here at UVA. I'm a child neurologist, but also an epileptologist. And the bulk of my time is spent taking care of children with epilepsy and some adults with epilepsy. I care for children in clinic and in the hospital during their admissions for seizures or epilepsy, and I also read EEGs. I first became interested in medicine as a career watching my older sister go through medical school. She's a bit older than me though. I had a good role model in that regard, and that created my interest in medicine. I knew that I wanted to be a pediatrician, but when I took care of a child during my medical school who had infantile spasms, which is a rare type of epilepsy, I really got to experience what the families had to go through of learning the diagnosis, navigating the treatments and the expected long-term follow up, and so that patient really stuck with me of how much we could really help families and work together to try to help that child's life. My area of interest and expertise is with genetic epilepsy. This includes diagnosing genetic disorders in children with epilepsy, finding the right treatments and medications for them, and following them long-term. Here at UVA, we're a comprehensive epilepsy center, so this means we offer all the services necessary to treat children with epilepsy, whether it's a straightforward epilepsy or more complex epilepsy. So we offer access to medications, dietary therapy, devices such as a vagal nerve stimulator, or in some children, even a surgical evaluation. And knowing that they have all those options here at UVA is really important that their child is getting everything that they need in their epilepsy care.
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